title: Description of the eggs of Anopheles (Kerteszia) laneanus and Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) antunesi (Diptera: Culicidae) by scanning electron microscopy.
abstract: The eggs of Anopheles laneanus Correa and Cerqueira and Anopheles antunesi Galvão and Amaral are described and illustrated with scanning electron micrographs. The egg of An. laneanus is compared with those of Anopheles cruzii Dyar and Knab and Anopheles bellator Dyar and Knab, and An. antunesi is compared with Anopheles lutzii Cruz and other Nyssorhynchus species.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Epidemiologia, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, NUPTEM, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: O P
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Forattini
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sallum
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Marques
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Flores
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles; D005260:Female; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D010063:Ovum / Q000648:ultrastructure*